“I remember getting to the point where I felt like every decision I was making was the wrong one because I was too exhausted to make good decisions, or to, frankly, even care,” says host Corinne Morahan, describing the decision fatigue she once suffered. With the average American making 35,000 decisions a day, it’s no wonder we experience symptoms such as fatigue, procrastination, overwhelm, overthinking, regret and pure exhaustion on the mental, physical and emotional level. What’s worse, these small decisions take up so much of our mental space that we have no room or energy to make big decisions with thoughtful care. Luckily, Corinne has a solution—one that she shares with her members in the Grid + Glam Home Organizing Membership and with you on today’s episode of Get Organized for Good.

The key, she explains, is automation. By taking the decision-making out of small inconsequential matters, you create brain space and energy for the big things. She’ll explain how to batch your tasks to avoid the pitfalls of what’s called “context switching,” the best way to do laundry and how she uses the Notes app to make decisions with and for the family. Imagine coming home from a business trip guilt-free with no decisions to make except which book you’d like to curl up with, or sending your children off to school without any stress? These are just some of the success stories members have reported.

Corinne herself was able to build her businesses only after she put herself through the membership and solidified a system of automation in her own life and home. On today’s episode she’ll share more about her experience and how you can get started, too.

Quotes

• “I remember getting to the point where I felt like every decision I was making was the wrong one because I was too exhausted to make good decisions, or to, frankly, even care.” (1:37 | Corinne Morahan)
• “Do you ever find yourself thinking, ‘Why am I so overwhelmed by this very basic thing?’ or I would look at some of my friends and think, ‘That person is so much more competent than I am. Why can they do that thing so easily? Why do I feel so overwhelmed by this?’ Oh, right. Because I’m in decision fatigue.” (8:22 | Corinne Morahan)
• “There are certain decisions that we cannot take off our plate, we have to make them with our best energy. Those are the ones that I want us to have all of the stamina for. All the things that need to be decided, but the outcome of which don’t have a huge impact on our lives—like what we’re going to wear, what we’re going to eat, are the kids’ backpacks packed, do they have their snacks, where are we going to go on vacation?—that’s a fun one. There are ways that you can really automate all of these things.” (12:13 | Corinne Morahan)
• “For me, the gift of this has been feeling like it majorly alleviates the pressure of being an adult because when I had my best thinking on, I made these decisions on how we want things to run. And now we just get to do it. And now I have the time and energy to put that brain space into the bigger decisions I want.” (14:06 | Corinne Morahan)

Links

Doors to the G+G Home Organizing Membership are OPEN until May 31!! This is my signature program, designed to help you TRULY get organized for good!! Click here to join: gridandglam.com/gg-membership

Connect With Corinne:

https://www.gridandglam.com/

https://www.corinnemorahan.com/

https://www.instagram.com/gridandglam/

https://www.instagram.com/corinnemorahan/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/corinnemorahan/

https://www.facebook.com/gridandglam

https://www.youtube.com/@gridandglam1

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“This is the foundation for living the good life.” On today’s episode, host Corinne Morahan shares the seven pillars that she guarantees will help you Get Organized for Good. She’ll tell you what you need to stop doing, what you need to start doing, and what you need to commit to doing long term in order to start living the life of your dreams. These pillars are at the heart of what you’ll learn when you enroll in Grid + Glam’s Home Organizing Membership, where thousands of people have completely changed their lives through decluttering and implementing Corinne’s frameworks for organization in their homes.

Instilling these pillars in your life will help you reclaim your time and start to live life in the moment rather than be anchored down by stuff. By learning to buy less, you’ll only increase the pleasure of shopping. How can you get the whole family on board, how do you make your space so pretty you’ll never want to clutter it again, and what is the one pillar that keeps all the others standing? Find out in today’s discussion.

If you’re ready to be radically self-honest and make organizing a priority, you can start to reclaim your time to spend it on the things that truly matter to you. Join today’s episode to learn how to enroll in Grid + Glam Home Organizing Membership.

Quotes

• “While I have worked on my perfectionist tendencies—I call myself ‘a recovering perfectionist’—I am still not quite a recovering people pleaser, I still definitely have that piece of me inside, and I didn’t want to let people down. Yet, I was letting myself down, I was letting my family down and somehow that was OK.” (4:16 | Corinne Morahan)
• “Life is lived in the everyday moments, but we don’t really enjoy them. We’re focused on buying the next thing, the next product that’s going to make our life better, rather than putting our time and energy into experiences and in showing up for our life.” (6:31 | Corinne Morahan)
• “Everyone in your household is responsible for participating, or at least supporting, the effort.” (10:22 | Corinne Morahan)
• “I have seen from thousands of case studies that when our space looks pretty, we are so much more likely to keep it pretty.” (12:35 | Corinne Morahan)
• “Staying organized requires maintenance.” (13:08 | Corinne Morahan)

Links

Doors to the G+G Home Organizing Membership are OPEN!! Join us now to get organized for good!! Click here to learn more: gridandglam.com/gg-membership

The May 21 workshop is TODAY at noon ET! It's not too late. Join here: https://www.gridandglam.com/get-organized-for-good-may21-registration

Connect With Corinne:

https://www.gridandglam.com/

https://www.corinnemorahan.com/

https://www.instagram.com/gridandglam/

https://www.instagram.com/corinnemorahan/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/corinnemorahan/

https://www.facebook.com/gridandglam

https://www.youtube.com/@gridandglam1

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“If you want endless repetition, see a lot of different people; if you want variety, stay with one.” Host Corinne Morahan borrows a quote from folk icon Joni Mitchell to demonstrate the paradoxical nature of keeping romance alive: by putting routines in place, you can keep the fun and spontaneity alive in your long term relationship. On today’s episode of Get Organized for Good, Corinne shares some top tips she uses to keep the spark alive in her own 17-year marriage. Working, raising kids and dealing with all the stressors of modern life can take a toll on any marriage. But if you can start from a foundation of love and respect, these tips will help you to remember you’re on the same team.

As promised in last week’s episode, she shares the bean jar technique that she and her husband began using during their first year of marriage (hint: the goal is actually to keep the jar empty). Should you talk about the kids during date night? What do you do when you’re tired, on different schedules, or just don’t feel like doing anything? Corinne explains how to keep a date journal and the importance of flirting.

Stay tuned to the end of the episode for your sexting assignment, and to discover Corinne’s curated sexy playlist.

Quotes

• “I very much enjoy being around my husband. We have a lot of fun. We still have a great sex life. And that’s what I want for all of you.” (5:44 | Corinne Morahan)
• “Not every year has looked the same. Not every season has been the best season for us. There—I was going to say there are times we are annoyed with each other–obviously he’s not annoyed with me because I’m perfect—but there are plenty of times where I get annoyed with him. So, I don’t want to paint a picture of something that is completely untrue and unrealistic because that is just not reality. We are two human beings, working through our own shit, raising two of the most incredible children.” (6:03 | Corinne Morahan)
• “My husband and I wrote our own vows and in them we said, ‘It’s just you and me, playing catch.’ I don’t even know how to throw a ball, I don’t know how we came up with that, but I love the metaphor. Whatever’s happening around us in the outside world, it’s just the two of us, playing catch. Sometimes it’s the two of us against our kids, if you know what I’m saying. Just the two of us against the world.” (9:58 | Corinne Morahan)
• “Listen, sometimes I’m not in the mood. I’ve already shared, many times, I’m a homebody. I like to be in cozy clothes; I like to stay in my house and do nothing. So, sometimes, putting on clothes and getting myself all done up doesn’t feel like exactly the thing I want to do. But I love sitting across the table from my husband, drinking a dirty martini.” (18:42 | Corinne Morahan)
• “Most of us just fall into a rut and we take each other for granted, we get tired, our spouses see us at our literal worst, they see us at our ugliest, they see us at our most disgusting. I’m not trying to be my best self all the time at my house. So, it makes it even that much more important that we get dressed up for date night, that we send each other flirty and fun texts and that we make it fun.” (21:58| Corinne Morahan)

Links

Join me for the FREE Get Organized for Good Workshop! Click here to learn more: http://gridandglam.com/workshop

Here's the playlist my husband put together! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/04sQfzRSVKv34wEL5kuP5q?si=j76g4FQbQMSx9KKDt1_DAQ&pi=u-sJi00ZGDR92a&nd=1&dlsi=35f3a478b30b41c3

Connect With Corinne:

https://www.gridandglam.com/

https://www.corinnemorahan.com/

https://www.instagram.com/gridandglam/

https://www.instagram.com/corinnemorahan/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/corinnemorahan/

https://www.facebook.com/gridandglam

https://www.youtube.com/@gridandglam1

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